About music....one of our tradition in Estonia is National Song and Dance Celebration after every 4 years. This is a choir music celebration. Today we had The 12th Estonian Youth Song and Dance Celebration last contcert, and it was absolutely emotional and patriotic day (imagine yourself in the middle of that). We have obviously the most cold summer (the highest degrees by celcius are +10 to maximum +17 in islands). All our country have celebrated together with these young people and children (almost 40 thousand singers-dancers) for few days, and we have proved, that music is a powreful thing, this is a uniting dicipline. I´m so proud. Song celebration video will be soon in Youtube, but I´ll share the dance celebration video with you:

I´m not their first fan , but, their music is easy to listen, and the message is clear, and easy to remember and sing along - young people love them (children as well). The most curly guys are a married couple (violin + mandolin). They are always so joyful, as their music . My favourite is (the lyrics -> about the power of music, wich make us to be better people, make us come together and so on :), all the good things :

Thank You Susie, trip went well. My presentation was successful. Delta and KLM treated us well but it´s difficult for me in USA, I kind of get lost there (or the feeling, that a single person can get lost for the others, they dont have time to notice each other or something like that), it´s scares me a bit. I met my friends there from university, and that was just great, so happy to meet people in live , not through internet. The time difference is very difficult to handle - my mind just dont want to understand that 8 hours dissapeare somewhere. And I experienced again the quite considerable culture difference and the philosophy of life of americans and us, people from north of Europe. I love to be at home (it is nice to visit others, but the best place in the world is at home , in tiny Estonia